Where is the most authentic Changzhou specialty?
Changzhou has been a city with developed handicraft industry since ancient times. Traditional handicrafts in Changzhou, such as combs, bamboo carvings, micro-carvings and needle embroidery, have strong local characteristics and artistic taste, and the newly developed ostrich egg handicrafts, cloisonne craft paintings and dinosaur series tourist souvenirs also have their own characteristics. Changzhou people are familiar with dried radish, sesame candy and sesame cake, but they don't know that fish head, goose and celery in Tianmu Lake in Liyang are also very popular in Shanghai. In addition, Changde Lerousong and Chenfengsi are also excellent gifts for relatives and friends. Changzhou has shopping malls, New Century Department Stores and other large shopping malls, as well as Changzhou handicraft shopping malls and Buhengshun comb shops specializing in tourism commodities. China Dinosaur Park and Tianmu Lake Tourist Resort have tourist souvenirs and local products shopping malls, which can fully meet your shopping needs. People who have been to Changzhou with dried radish, a local product, will say, "There is a strange thing in Changzhou. Dried radish is used as an appetizer. " Authentic Changzhou dried radish is made of sweet and tender solid carrots produced by Xinzha Gate outside the West Gate of Changzhou, washed, cut into strips, moderately dried and carefully pickled with unique seasoning. Sesame sugar, inch gold sugar, broken sugar, sliced sugar Changzhou sesame sugar, inch gold sugar, broken sugar and sliced sugar have a long history and unique flavor. Its material selection is fine and its production is exquisite. Sesame requires no skin cover and no stuffing at both ends. The sugar layer is not hard, sweet, crisp and non-sticky. It is a good gift for family trips and friends' parties. "Zhuze" brand wind goose and "Zhuze" brand goose series products are processed and refined by scientific methods on the basis of inheriting traditional techniques. There are more than 20 varieties of goose products in three categories: wind goose, sauce goose and braised goose. This series of products retains the four characteristics of traditional goose, namely "color, fragrance, taste and shape", which is original and has endless aftertaste after eating. Bamboo shoots are located in the Nanshan area of Liyang, with 10000 mu of bamboo forest, which is the main base for mass production of winter bamboo shoots and spring bamboo shoots. Peel off the shell of the bamboo shoots and expose all the tender bamboo shoots. Cutting them into slices, strips, slices and shreds, cooking them alone or mixing them with meat as seasoning are all popular foods. If bamboo shoots are boiled, dried and stored, they can be regarded as a good dish in summer and autumn. Liyang Oenanthe javanica is of good quality. People eat its tender stems and leaves, which can be fried with meat or mixed with vegetables. Among them, mixed celery and fried celery are popular fresh vegetables on the table in winter and spring because of their color, fragrance, taste and shape, and are known as a must in Jiangnan cuisine. Chestnut The scientific name of chestnut in Nanshan, Liyang is "Pearl Chestnut", which is famous for its thin shell, large fruit, bright brown color and sweet taste. Among them, the newborn tender chestnut before Mid-Autumn Festival is the best, its skin color is light yellow, it is crisp and tender when eaten raw, and it is more fragrant and softer when cooked with ingredients, and its taste is like osmanthus fragrance, so it is also called "osmanthus chestnut". Watermelon Liyang Watermelon, a famous product in Qing Dynasty, sold well in Shanghai-Nanjing Line in 1950s. "Sumi 1" and "Liyang Watermelon" were introduced successively, with thin skin, few seeds, sweet flesh and plenty of juice. If you cut a watermelon with a kitchen knife, when the blade touches the skin, it will split in two, commonly known as "popping melon". Crab The crab in Changdang Lake has a green back and a white belly, and strong claws. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is big, yellow and full, fat and delicate, and becomes a good product on the table. Craft products comb comb is called comb, which is one of the eight ancient hair accessories in China. As the saying goes, "Yangzhou rouge Suzhou flower, Changzhou first comb." Changzhou comb has a history of 1600 years since the Jin Dynasty. It used to be a palace treasure. Therefore, it has the reputation of "Palace comb is a famous grate", which is a traditional handicraft and a "Yanling specialty". Brick carving screen Brick carving screen is a kind of cutting method, which engraves Han tablet characters and Han painting images on ancient bricks in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and then matches with the exquisite seat screen and hanging screen carved by mahogany. Brick carving screen is light in weight, small in size, easy to carry and simple and elegant in appearance. This image not only has the masculinity of Han Dynasty inscriptions and stone reliefs, but also has the spirit of ancient inscriptions, which has high artistic value. Cloisonne Cloisonne-called metal tire enamel in ancient times. Metal tire silk-pinching craft painting is a traditional manual silk-pinching craft, which constructs a picture on the bottom of metal material. The main color and background color of the picture adopt modern new technology and color matching skills, and the picture is clear, novel, rich in color and strong in three-dimensional sense. Professor Yang Shouyu, Liu Haisu's cousin, was founded in 1928 after years of exploration. Close-up, it seems that the needling method is chaotic and irregular, but from a distance, it has a strong three-dimensional sense, lifelike and lifelike, and the intricacies contain subtlety. China Colored Velvet Painting China Colored Velvet Painting is a new type of arts and crafts with strong local characteristics of China ethnic groups, which was initiated by Mr. Zong Baiyi from Changzhou Colored Velvet Painting Institute on 1972. This kind of painting combines traditional techniques with modern materials and art, takes wool, acrylic, nylon and other materials with strong wool texture as colors, and adopts various technological means such as scraping, combing, tearing, sticking, laminating, etc., and integrates painting, embossing, inlaying and other techniques. Unique shape, vivid image, strong three-dimensional sense, rich colors, not easy to fade, elegant tone. Carving bamboo leaves Carving bamboo leaves, commonly known as painting with a knife on bamboo skin, is a precious traditional handicraft in Changzhou. Because of its high craftsmanship and exquisite craftsmanship, it has been highly valued by court nobles in past dynasties. So far, it has won many national gold and silver awards for industrial and artistic appraisal. Changzhou Shopping Mall: Department Store Co., Ltd. 127 Yanling West Road 6682260 No.2-8 North Street of New Century Shopping Mall Co., Ltd. 6605974 Taifu Department Store 12 1 6630800 Shopping Center Yanling West Road1-78108/Kloc. Hualian Jimaisheng Shopping Center 196 Tongjiang Avenue 5 108822 Times Supermarket No.32 Huaide South Road 6867822 Xinte Supermarket No.4 Shuangguifang 633504 Trust-Mart No.26 Laodong West Road No.690678 Guanhe East Road No.38 Jiuzhou RT Mart 8 123086 Tesco Life Shopping Co., Ltd. Oriental Yi Xuan Xin 'ao Home 69876. Changzhou Longcheng Tourism Gift Co., Ltd. No.85 Yanling West Road 6689490, Changzhou New District Tourism Products Company, China Dinosaur Garden 5 1 17650, Liyang Tianshan Garden Shopping Mall. Muhu 7981300 Master Hendrick Chin asen Needle Embroidery Studio 604000 Dijing Needle Embroidery Exhibition Hall No.52 Shuangguifang 6 16882 No.7 South Street of Ruihetai Shopping Mall 6 10757 Buhengshun Comb Shop No.28 Biji Lane 6001465438. 12 national highway Zhongliang overpass west 6642959 note: now the telephone number is preceded by 8, which I have seen before. I hope it helps you.